Thomas Poeck
 Thomas Poeck 
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| Date of birth | 2nd December 1981 |
| place of birth | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Austria |
| size | 185 cm |
| Weight | 95 kg |
| position | defender |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Career stations | |
| until 2000 | EC KAC |
| 2000-2004 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2004-2009 | Hartford Wolf Pack |
| 2008-2009 | New York Islanders |
| 2009-2011 | Rapperswil-Jona Lakers |
| 2011–2012 | MODO hockey |
| 2012-2013 | Lake Erie Monsters |
| 2013-2016 | EC KAC |
| 2016-2017 | EC Graz 99ers |
Thomas Pöck (born December 2, 1981 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) is a former Austrian ice hockey player and today's trainer. In the course of his career he played for the EC KAC in the Austrian ice hockey league , the New York Islanders and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League and the Hartford Wolf Pack in the American Hockey League . Since the 2018/19 season he has been the head coach of the Northern Cyclones from the USPHL Elite , a US junior league.
Career
Pöck, the son of Herbert Pöck , played first at EC KAC and from the 2000/01 season for the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US college league National Collegiate Athletic Association , where the striker switched to defense. In 2003 he was elected to the First All-Star Team of Conference Hockey East . In 2004 he was elected to the First All-Star Team and the All-Tournament Team in the same conference.
Shortly before the end of the regular season of the 2003/04 NHL season , Pöck accepted an offer from the New York Rangers and played all six remaining games. He scored two goals and two assists. The Rangers were not represented in the playoffs this season. From the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season , he played primarily in the American Hockey League with the Hartford Wolf Pack . In the 2005/06 season he was also used sporadically by the New York Rangers and came to eight games in which he scored a goal and an assist. Mostly he was used again for Hartford in the AHL and at the end of the season elected to the Second All-Star Team and nominated for the All-Star Game.
In the 2006/07 season , Pöck was in the second playoff round with the Rangers. There they met the Buffalo Sabers with Pöck's compatriot Thomas Vanek . Pöck was in the six games in this series that they lost, but not in the Rangers roster. The 2007/08 season began Pöck in the Rangers NHL squad, but was sent to the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL after just one game, where he spent the entire season. In the fall of 2008, he took part in the Rangers training camp, but was placed on the waiver list before the start of the season , so that the New York Islanders signed him .
In the 2009/10 season came Thomas Pock after nine years in North America back to Europe and signed a two-year contract with the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the Swiss National League A . After two seasons with the Lakers, he moved to MODO Hockey in Sweden before the 2011/12 season .
In July 2012, Thomas Pöck signed a one-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche , but was not called to the team of the National Hockey League . Therefore, he came in the 2012/13 season exclusively for their farm team, the Lake Erie Monsters , in the American Hockey League. In April 2013 he returned to his hometown club in Klagenfurt after he no longer saw any prospects for himself in the NHL.
In October 2016, the EC Graz 99ers signed the Carinthian.
After the 2016/17 season, Pöck ended his playing career and in May 2017 became head coach of the Boston Pride of the National Women's Hockey League , one of the two professional women's ice hockey leagues in the world. Since the 2018/19 season he has been the trainer of the Northern Cyclones from the USPHL Elite , a US junior league.
International
In the junior division, Pöck played for Austria at the U18-C European championships in 1998 , the U18-B European championships in 1999 and the U20-C world championships in 1999 and 2000 .
For the Austrian men's selection , in which he made his debut in the 3-1 defeat in the friendly against Germany on November 13, 1999 in Rosenheim , he played at the top division World Championships in 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 and 2013 . At the 2010 World Cup he played in Division I. He was also part of the Austrian squad at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002 and Sochi in 2014 and at the qualifying tournament for the 2006 Games in Turin .
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 1998 promotion to the B-European championship at the U18-C-European championship
- 2000 Promotion to the A world championship at the U20 B world championship
- 2010 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I, Group A.
Career statistics
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| season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
| 1998/99 | EC KAC | OIL | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1999/00 | EC KAC | OIL | 33 | 4th | 11 | 15th | 48 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2000/01 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | NCAA | 33 | 6th | 6th | 12 | 59 | |||||||
| 2001/02 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | NCAA | 23 | 5 | 7th | 12 | 26th | |||||||
| 2002/03 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | NCAA | 37 | 17th | 20th | 37 | 46 | |||||||
| 2003/04 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | NCAA | 37 | 16 | 25th | 41 | 48 | |||||||
| 2003/04 | New York Rangers | NHL | 6th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2004/05 | Hartford Wolf Pack | AHL | 50 | 1 | 5 | 6th | 55 | 6th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8th | ||
| 2004/05 | Charlotte Checkers | ECHL | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2005/06 | Hartford Wolf Pack | AHL | 67 | 15th | 46 | 61 | 99 | 6th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 15th | ||
| 2005/06 | New York Rangers | NHL | 8th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2006/07 | New York Rangers | NHL | 44 | 4th | 4th | 8th | 16 | 4th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4th | ||
| 2006/07 | Hartford Wolf Pack | AHL | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2007/08 | New York Rangers | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2007/08 | Hartford Wolf Pack | AHL | 74 | 7th | 37 | 44 | 63 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
| 2008/09 | New York Islanders | NHL | 59 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 35 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2009/10 | Rapperswil-Jona Lakers | NLA | 49 | 11 | 22nd | 33 | 58 | 7th | 2 | 7th | 9 | 8th | ||
| 2010/11 | Rapperswil-Jona Lakers | NLA | 47 | 8th | 17th | 25th | 40 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | ||
| 2011/12 | MODO hockey | Elitserien | 55 | 9 | 16 | 25th | 32 | 6th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | ||
| 2012/13 | Lake Erie Monsters | AHL | 47 | 11 | 22nd | 33 | 61 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2013/14 | Klagenfurt AC | OIL | 52 | 10 | 15th | 25th | 50 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2014/15 | Klagenfurt AC | OIL | 54 | 6th | 26th | 32 | 70 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | ||
| 2015/16 | Klagenfurt AC | OIL | 52 | 8th | 17th | 25th | 60 | 6th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
| NHL overall | 118 | 8th | 9 | 17th | 55 | 4th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4th | ||||
( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1 play-downs / relegation )
family
His younger brother Markus Pöck is also an ice hockey player. His father Herbert took part in three Olympic Winter Games for Austria.
Web links
- Thomas Pöck at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Graz 99ers commit Thomas Pöck. In: derstandard.at . October 3, 2016, accessed July 3, 2017 .
- ^ Thomas Poeck Named Head Coach of the Boston Pride. In: nwhl.zone. May 19, 2017, accessed July 3, 2017 .
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| SURNAME | Pöck, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pock, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd December 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Austria |